204 Quotes About Utopia

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath

[A] permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

En el campo…En el campo… Me encantaba el campo. Quería estar lejos de las ciudades,lejos de la excitación. Sólo me apetecía tumbarme de espaldas bajo un árbol yleer un libro o dibujar, y dejar de preocuparme porque me asaltaran, dejar dellevar una faca o terminar casado con alguna fulana como una cabra. Así debíade ser el campo, pensé ensoñadoramente.

The utopias built by citizens like Anna Holshouser are not yet on that map. But they should be. [active during 1906 earthquake and fire in SF CA] 18

Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us. 135